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Amanda S. Gossman provides tips on keeping documentation up-to-date. Nurses are talented and intelligent professionals, and our clinical skills, education and personal attributes are admired by many. These attributes need to be demonstrated at all times by our documentation principles. ...

Associate professor Roianne West, of James Cook University, is the first full-time Aboriginal academic in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition. She spoke to Aileen Macalintal. We understand how gruelling doing a PhD is. How did you brave the ...

Sandy Anderson is a women's health nurse and practice nurse at the Baarlinjan Medical Clinic at Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative. Last year, Sandy was awarded the ASHM/NSW STIPU/GPV Best Practice Nurse Award for Sexual Health for her work in ...

Adelaide researchers have found that emu oil has therapeutic potential, not only for the treatment of various common bowel diseases, but for intestinal damage caused by chemotherapy. New research from the University of Adelaide not only supports emu oil’s claimed ...

Continuing a tradition that began in 1931, the Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital Easter appeal hit a new record. Victorians have dug deep to raise a record breaking $15 million for Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital in their Good Friday Appeal. The ...

Alzheimer’s Australia is calling for an additional $500 million in the upcoming budget for dementia care services and research. Australia's aged care system is failing people with dementia. That's the feedback from public consultations held by Alzheimer's Australia around the ...

$60 million to target those at risk of entering residential aged care prematurely. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced 21 organisations will share $60 million to help build community-based accommodation for adults with severe or profound disability. The Supported Accommodation ...

Is the role of EN falling off the radar? By Disheartened EN/PCA I am tired of constantly hearing about the plight of graduate RNs. I read many nursing magazines and feel the professional role of EN is disappearing from view. ...

Mary Casey provides an insight into the evolution of community care. It is twenty years since I established the Nursing Group and I am astonished at how much things have changed when it comes to community care. I founded the ...

The Royal District Nursing Service has been announced as an ‘Outstanding ICT Innovation’ finalist for its broadband telehealth project in the prestigious first Asia Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards 2013 in Singapore. It has also been announced as an ‘Outstanding Eldercare ...